Months before its anticipated release, information regarding Qualcomm’s upcoming flagship SoC is starting to emerge. The next Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC is expected to have a reorganized CPU cluster arrangement and will likely only handle 64-bit operations, completely abandoning 32-bit functionality. The chip, which reportedly has the codenames Lanai or Pineapple, is scheduled to debut in late 2023, maybe during Qualcomm’s annual summit in Hawaii.
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If the company’s previous releases are any indication, we may also see the mid-year arrival of a Snapdragon 8+ Gen 2 Processor with improved thermal performance and power efficiency. It’s difficult to predict whether the Gen 3 SoC will actually be in phones this year or if we will have to wait until 2024.
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According to a thread on Twitter by Kuba Wojciechowski (@Za Raczke), this next-generation processor will have the model number SM8650 and will be known by the codename Lanai, or Pineapple. According to the tweet, the new CPU configuration will have a 2+3+2+1 structure. This includes two “Silver” ARM Hayes (A5XX) cores, three “Gold” ARM Hunter (A7XX) cores, two “Titanium” ARM Hunter (A7XX) cores, and one “Gold” ARM Hunter ELP (Xn) core. This will be Qualcomm’s first chip to have a “Titanium” cluster and as of now, it’s unclear how it will differ from the “Gold” cluster. Wojciechowski mentions that this new cluster might be configured differently with more cache, or could simply be clocked higher.
According to my sources, the SoC will have the following CPU config:
2x Arm codename Hayes (A5xx) "silver" cores
3x Arm codename Hunter (A7xx) "gold" cores
2x Arm codename Hunter (A7xx) "titanium" cores
1x Arm codename Hunter ELP (Xn) "gold+" core— kamila 🏳️⚧️ 🌸 (@Za_Raczke) March 23, 2023
The tweet further explains that the brand-new, unannounced CPU cores from ARM are called the Hunter and Hunter (ELP). This new cluster configuration appears to contradict an earlier leak that suggested the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 would have a 1+5+2 configuration. It will be substantially different from the existing 1+4+3 layout.
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Wojciechowski claims that Qualcomm’s code also confirms that this SoC will only support 64-bit computing. The GPU in the upcoming chip is said to be the Adreno 750 and currently has a peak clock speed of 770MHz — although it’s possible that this could change by the time the SoC is announced. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is also said to run on version 6.1 of the Linux kernel with Android 14.
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Previous rumors suggested that the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC could launch early this year and would receive a 25 percent bump in performance. If this is indeed true, then it’s also possible that Qualcomm might skip a Snapdragon 8+ Gen 2 model and directly release its successor.